6B Porches Inn GB

Porches Inn, North Adams, Massachusetts

Photos by Nicholas Whitman

Directly across the street from Mass MoCA, the largest contemporary art museum in the country, the Porches Inn was designed from a row of handsome but dilapidated 19th century workers’ houses. We avoided new interior connectors, and linked them instead with long exterior porches. The north-facing light wells were enclosed, giving us an inside-outside feeling in this now interior circulation space.